How much do you love the country music genre? Here you'll find several quotes about the genre of country and how it has affected creators and consumers alike.
Many quotes also touch on how country music was developed over the years and how far its reach has gone to affect the entire world.
Hardcore music fans will probably recognize a few of these quotes and might want to consider putting them on a T-shirt or piece of art to hang in their home!
"If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words." - Dolly Parton
"That's country music for you - bourbon and the Bible." - Dave Haywood
"Well, you can see the neighbor's butt crack nailing on his shingles, and his woman's smoking Pall Mall's watchin' Laura Ingalls. And Granny's gettin' lit. She's headin' out to bingo." - Jason Aldean
"Drop kick me, Jesus, through the goal posts of life." - Bobby Bare
"Don't I warn you when you're gettin fat? Ain't I a gonna take you fishin' with me someday? Well, a man can't love a woman more than that." - Tompall Glaser
"I love you honey. I love your money. Most of all I love your automobile." - Patsy Cline
"It costs a lot of money to look this cheap." - Dolly Parton
"I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they had a Roy Acuff so I started singing like myself." - Hank Williams
"You never know what’s gonna happen. You make your plans and you hear god laughing." - Thomas Rhett
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"Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are." - Faith Hill
"Country music fans are extremely supportive. Once they're with you, they're with you for life." - Faith Hill
"Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad." - George Jones
"Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it." - Shania Twain
"Country music is so related to gospel. It seems I could go down that road pretty easily." - Dionne Warwick
"A good country song takes a page out of somebody's life and puts it to music." - Conway Twitty
"For me, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories." - Garrett Hedlund
"I think the attraction to country music is the fans, the lure of the hardcore fan base." - Luke Bryan
"You have to grow up, start paying rent and have your heart broken before you understand country." - Emmylou Harris
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"All my exes live in Texas, and Texas is the place I'd really love to be. But all my exes live in Texas. And that's why I hang my hat in Tennessee." - George Strait
"I believe this world ain't half as bad as it looks. I believe most people are good." - Luke Bryan
"Blame it all on my roots, I showed up in boots." - Garth Brooks
"I don't wanna spend my life jaded, waiting to wake up one day and find that I've let all these years go by wasted." - Carrie Underwood
"Some people look down on me, but I don't give a rip. I'll stand barefooted in my own front yard with a baby on my hip." - Gretchen Wilson
"She may be an angel who spends all winter, bringin' the homeless blankets and dinner, a regular Nobel Peace Prize winner, but I really hate her. I'll think of a reason later." - Lee Ann Womack
"Get over it, honey. Life's a two way street. Or you won't be a man of mine. So, I had some beers with the girls last night. Guys do it all the time." - Mindy McCready
"Every time you kiss me it’s like sunshine and whiskey." - Frankie Ballard
"She said, ‘I bet you don’t remember me.’ I said, ‘Only every other memory.'" - Tim McGraw
"A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world." - Willie Nelson
"Only in country music can you compare an old pickup truck and an old guitar to your wife and turn it into a love song... Thank God for country music." - Dierks Bentley
"When you're talking about the genre country music, it used to be called Country & Western music. That's the whole reason why those guys in Nashville started wearing cowboy hats and boots back in the day. That didn't come from the South, that came from the West." - Colter Wall
"You seldom hear any young artists in country music." - Conway Twitty
"I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B." - Willie Nelson
"Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory; country music does." - Johnny Cash
"Country music busts the wall between performer and audience. There's a connection because there's a vulnerability, a confessional quality, to so much of the songwriting. Those lyrics take you in." - Hunter Hayes
"I’ve seen a real revolution in women’s roles in country music, and I think it’s because of the women writers." - Donna Fargo
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